Ivana Španović

Ivana Španović

Ivana Španović
Personal information
Nationality Serbian
Born 10 May 1990
Zrenjanin, SR Serbia, Yugoslavia
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight 67.0 kg (147.7 lb; 10.55 st)
Sport
Sport Track and field
Event(s) Long jump
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)

Outdoor: 6.88 m

Indoor: 6.98 m

Ivana Španović (Serbian Cyrillic: Ивана Шпановић, born 10 May 1990) is a Serbian long jumper, reigning European indoor champion. In 2013, she became the first Serbian track and field athlete to win a medal at the IAAF Outdoor World Championships . She holds the Serbian record in the long jump, indoors and outdoors, and also is a national indoor record holder in the 60 metres and in the pentathlon. Her coaches are Jani Hajdu and Goran Obradović and she is a member of the Athletic Club Vojvodina in Novi Sad.[1]

Career

Španović earned gold medals at the 2008 World Junior Championships and the 2009 Summer Universiade. She was selected as Serbia's Best Young Athlete of 2008. She also won silver medals at the 2007 World Youth Championships, the 2009 European Junior Championships and the 2011 European U23 Championships.

Španović participated in the qualifying round at the 2008 Olympic Games, and was a finalist at the 2012 Olympic Games.

2013 she started at the European Indoor Championship when she was ranked fifth. At the World oudoor championship she had achieved the best result in her career by then, bronze medal with the new national record 6.82 meters. Olympic Committee of Serbia therefore declared her the best female athlete of the year.

In 2014 she won the bronze medal at the World Indoor Championships and silver medals at the European Outdoor championship and IAAF Continental Cup in Marrakesh. She also improved her outdoor personal best on 6.88 meters at the Diamond League meet in Eugene.

In 2015 she won her first gold medal as a senior athlete becoming European indoor champion with new national record 6.98 meters.

Španović has achieved three victories in the IAAF Diamond League circuit: at the DN Galan in 2013, and at the Prefontaine Classic and Weltklasse Zürich in 2014.

Personal bests

Ivana Španović (left) in 2011

Outdoor

Event Performance Date Location Notes
100 m 11.90 14 June 2014 Sremska Mitrovica, Serbia
Long jump 6.88 m (22 ft 63⁄4 in) 31 May 2014 Eugene, United States[2] NR
Triple jump 13.78 m (45 ft 21⁄2 in) 14 June 2014 Belgrade, Serbia

Indoor

Event Performance Date Location Notes
60 m 7.31 31 January 2015 Novi Sad, Serbia NR
Long jump 6.98 m (22 ft 103⁄4 in) 7 March 2015 Prague, Czech Republic NR
Pentathlon 4240 pts 19 January 2013 Novi Sad, Serbia NR

International competitions

Year Competition Venue Position Notes
Representing  Serbia and Montenegro
2005 World Youth Championships Marrakesh, Morocco 8th (q) 5.97 m
Representing  Serbia
2006 World Junior Championships Beijing, [China 7th 6.23 m
2007
European Indoor Championships Birmingham, United Kingdom 18th (q) 6.18 m
World Youth Championships Ostrava, Czech Republic 2nd 6.41 m
European Junior Championships Hengelo, Netherlands 2nd (q) 6.24 m
European Youth Olympic Festival Belgrade, Serbia 2nd Long jump
3rd 4 × 100 m relay
2008
World Junior Championships Bydgoszcz, Poland 1st 6.61 m
Olympic Games Beijing, China 30th (q) 6.30 m
2009
Universiade Belgrade, Serbia 1st 6.64 m
European Junior Championships Novi Sad, Serbia 2nd 6.71 m
2010
European Championships Barcelona, Spain 8th 6.60 m
2011 European U23 Championships Ostrava, Czech Republic 2nd 6.74 m w (wind: +3.2m/s)
2012 European Championships Helsinki, Finland 15th (q) 6.33 m
Olympic Games London, United Kingdom 11th 6.35 m
2013 European Indoor Championships Gothenburg, Sweden 5th 6.68 m
World Championships Moscow, Russia 3rd 6.82 m
2014 World Indoor Championships Sopot, Poland 3rd 6.77 m
European Championships Zürich, Switzerland 2nd 6.81 m
Continental Cup Marrakech, Morocco 2nd 6.56 m
2015 European Indoor Championships Prague, Czech Republic 1st 6.98 m

Personal life

Ivana's parents are Ljubiša and Vesna Španović, who was also a competitive athlete. Španović is in a long-term relationship with fitness trainer Vladimir Kumrić.[3] She favors a distinctive and playful personal style. Even on the field she can be seen fiercely competing with her fellow elite athletes while sporting fashionable nails, often polished in neon colours.[4]

References

  1. ↑ AK Vojvodina - O klubu. AK Vojvosina (in Serbian). 2015-04-10. Retrieved 10 April 2015.
  2. ↑ http://www.diamondleague-eugene.com/Live-StartlistsResults/Overview/Long-Jump-Women/
  3. ↑ Mitrovic, M. (2015-04-10). Ko je momak kojem je Ivana Španović rekla sudbonosno "DA"?. Blic (in Serbian). Retrieved 10 April 2015.
  4. ↑ Ivana Španović i nokti kao imidž. Telegraf (in Serbian). 2015-04-10. Retrieved 10 April 2015.

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Awards
Preceded by
Milan Mačvan		 The Best Young Athlete of Serbia
2008 		Succeeded by
Tatjana Jelača